_Treatment._ Rest is the first consideration accompanied by soothing and anodyne application to the inflamed nerve. When neuritis exists in a limb a softly padded splint may be useful at first. The skin over the inflamed nerve may be rubbed by one or a combination of the anodyne essential oils, (oil of cajeput, oil of peppermint, oil of lavender). If the pain and tenderness are extreme, a bag of ice or snow may give relief and should be kept applied for a length of time. Or hot fomentations with a lotion of lead and opium may be preferred especially in rheumatic cases. If blisters seem to be called for, aqua ammonia and oil of turpentine may be added to the essential oils, or muriatic acid may be applied with a glass rod in points along the line of nerve. A laxative of Epsom or Glauber salts will often prove of great value at the outset and may be followed by diuretic doses of potassium iodide, potassium nitrate or acetate, and in rheumatic cases sodium salicylate. In these last forms, as also in gout, the carbonates and acetates of the alkalies, colchicum, and salicylates are especially to be persisted with. In these, too, rubefacients and blisters are often of essential value and may be repeated again and again. Faradism is of little account during the active stage of neuritis excepting as a test of the progress and extent of the degeneration, but when inflammation has subsided nothing contributes more to the restoration of the tone and healthy nutrition of both nerve and muscle. The current is to be sent along the line of the paretic nerve and muscles for ten or fifteen minutes at a time and not less than once a day. NEURALGIA. Intermittent or remittent pains, in line of nerve without inflammation, or other structural lesion. Diagnosis: lameness, stiffness of particular muscles having a common nerve. Unnatural position habitual. Pain of inflammation and of neuralgia. No functional change. Rheumatism. Tumors. Causes: lead, rheumatism, gout, auto-poisons, cold, anæmia, reflex. Facial neuralgia, occipito-cervical, dorso-intercostal, lumbo-abdominal, sciatic. Treatment: elimination, of lead, etc.; intestinal antiseptics, tonics, hot water, anodynes, arsenic.